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Jennifer Abbott (born January 8, 1965) is a Sundance and Genie award-winning film director, writer, editor, producer and sound designer who specializes in social justice and environmental documentaries.
Sep 24, 2020 · ‘We have to face it’: filmmaker Jennifer Abbott on ecological grief. New film explores how grief can help us better understand ourselves and the climate crisis — and spur us to take action. By Zoë Yunker. Sept. 24, 2020 11 min. read. Share.
The Film. “It was grief. I knew it well. And this time it was for the changing world around me.” - Jennifer Abbott. In Jennifer Abbott’s cinematic journey, the Sundance award-winning Director ( The Corporation) draws intimate parallels between the experiences of grief—both personal and planetary.
When Jennifer Abbott lost her sister to cancer, her sorrow opened her up to the profound gravity of climate breakdown, drawing intimate parallels between the experiences of grief—both personal and planetary.
Jennifer Abbott is a Sundance and Genie award-winning filmmaker who has been making films about urgent social, political and environmental issues for 25 years. She is best known as one of the Directors and Editor of The Corporation, frequently described as the most successful documentary in Canadian history.
Nov 8, 2021 · Magnitude’s famed director, Jennifer Abbott, recounts intimate stories from her own life that are as impactful as ones on a global scale. In doing so, Abbott makes it impossible not to shed tears over the loss of life that has occurred and will continue to occur.
Jennifer Abbott is a Genie and Sundance award winning filmmaker dedicated to filmmaking as art, philosophy and activism. She is best known as the Co-Director and Editor of THE CORPORATION (2003), still the top grossing and most awarded documentary in Canadian history also credited as one of the top ten films to inspire the Occupy movement.
